Coca-Cola weekly Promo – Emails – Facts Analysis

Story:

We are please to announce to you that your email address emerged along side 4 others as a category 2 winner in this year\’s weekly Promo in the coca-cola company.

You have won One million Pounds in the coca-cola weekly promo and therefore been approved for a total pay out of One million dollars (GBP 1,000,000.00POUNDS) The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

Other Versions

1. Attention. Dear Winner.

We are proud to inform you that this Online world wide E-mail Address final Draws from Coca-Cola Company United Kingdom was conducted from an exclusive list of 50 Million E-mails of individuals and Corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web.

Your E-mail Address was among the 20 Lucky winners to benefits from this E-mail promo. Each and every E-mail is to benefit One HP Laptop and the Sum of £500, 000, 00.GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds.) Worth of (3Crore, 72Lakhs India Rupees) this program is been sponsored by Coca-Cola Company and was conducted in other to promote and advertise Coca-cola products Worldwide. Also to create hope and self-believe to people around the world through this online world E-mail award promotion.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of £500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) for the Yearly Coca-Cola Lottery promotion United Kingdom which is organized by Coca-Cola in conjunction with Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company, “Your Email Address” were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Nine hundred thousand email from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, we have only selected 20 people as our winners, through electronic ballot System without the winner applying.

MAKE SURE YOU REPLY BACK TO THIS E-MAIL: cocacolaprizeoffer@outlook.com

APPROVE PAYMENT OFFICER: DR.WIGHT SMITH Tel: +447014212244

Congratulation Once again FROM THE BOARD DIRECTORS

Analysis:

These are the emails circulating with various titles like “The Coca-Cola Award Notification,” “Coca-Cola Email Promo,” “Coca-Cola Company Draw,” “The Coca-Cola Promo Winning Notification,” “The Coca-Cola Worldwide Christmas Promo,” “Notification for Coca-Cola Foundation Cash Aid” announcing Coca Cola Awards, Coca Cola jackpot, Cash Prizes and Sweepstakes. These messages are not facts, they are simply hoaxes, and are not to be believed. They are simply a means to gather your private bank account information and/or collect money from you.

Coca Cola does give My Coke Rewards officially, but it is a program offered only in the United States. And the official website for My Coke Rewards mycokerewards.com. The company also mentioned about these hoax messages in their official website. Below is their official response.

“The Coca-Cola Company is in no way associated with these emails, text messages, letters, unauthorized websites or programs. We are not a sponsor and our name and trademarks are used here without permission”

Therefore, any such scam emails should be discarded and email recipients should not share any kind of personal information with them.